The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-20
TRENTON NOTES.
What is Said About Men and Things at
the State Capital.

d1C IL thO al
-Ex-Assemblymsn Sheldon of Railway,
is in st. Louis, on business.
"A bill in the Senate proposes to roll all
the water companies into one.
Senator Chases sea wall bill is creating
good deal of discussion throughout the
State.
-sAssemblyman Lyon, of Morris, was
not in Trenton last Monday night or
Tuesday.
Little Mr. Large has begun anew his
annual fight against Elk Senator John Car
penter, Jr.
OF the Morris and Essex Railroad taxes
$57, 900 per year will come into the Jersey
City treasury.
Senator Chattle is one of the Temper
ancc Commissioners of the New Jersey
Methodist Conference.
Ex-senator Jonathan Fl. Blackwell, and
Sinking Fund Commissioner, has been
hunting alligators in Florida.
We want more public buildings and
more public school room, Ii we can't have
both which should we prefer?
-Assemblyman Roe is probably the.
finest looking man in the House, Hep
penheimer is the handsomest. rf
The House passed the Morris & Essex
Railroad repeater the momeAt they found
that the journal" was against it.
1t is said that the Newark and Jer-
ssy City members|of the House will join
hands now in passing the Gator Water Bill.
with the notifications made in it.
The Lehigh and Hudson River Rail-
road leads the van in calling in its out
standing passes. in compliance with the
Interstate Commerce law.
,g-Ex-P Private Secretary John A. Hall has
been long enough in s'public" life to know
that when John Kennel says he owes him
5000, the best thing for him to do is to
pay 1t.
-Assemblyman Dickinson is right when
he says that if the Legislature were to do
nothing more than to bring the Morris and
Essex to terms, it might rest proudly on its
laurels.
Edward J. G. Atterberry, who occu-
pied Gen. DicRinson's old Revolutionary
Hermitage in Trenton, died there last
week. He had lived in the Hermitage for
SO years.
-" Tom Middleton, who has been re-
nominated for Prosecutor of the Pleas in
Ocean county, is the District Attorney who
secured the conviction of Jim Wainwrights
murderer.
Secretary john 7. Van Cleef. Of the
State Board of Assessors, is the compiler of
9 most thorough and complete railroad map,
showing every railroad ard railroad statioa
in the State.
-Assemblyman Throckmorton says that
the election of Rufus Blodgett to the
United States Senate has materially
strengthened the Democratic party in the
State1l-in which he is wrong.
Tom Gator says that the President
would have done about right by appointing
on the Inter-Statate Commerce Commits
sion one man from Pennsylvania, three
from Jersey City and one from Newark.
The Newark sPress- Register saws that
Gov. CT Meyer zulick, now of Arizona,
who was once Surrogate of Essex county,
has raised hornets nest in his realm by
antagoEizing the anti-monopoly sentiment
of his people.
-Corbin was against making distinc-
ton against George Washington in favor
of st. Patrick; and as the House had
worked on Americas birthday, he was op-
posed to a memorial adjournment on Ire
lands feast day.
House the other day, tina. kickers from party
traces always came back by election. Com
bination Baird, who was listening to the
turned to him and said
6 Then you don't put me down as a kicker,
do you?
The bill for the abolition Of the Board
of Works turns out after all to have been
nothing more than a bill 10 enlarge the
Mayor powers and salary 1t proposes,
too, to s.simplify" the machinery of local
government by abolishing one Board and
establishing two in its place.
1t is openly stated that Governor Green
has decided not to re-appoint Judge John
nor to succeed him with Ex-
James @. Clarke. And SO
there is apparently nothing to stand in the
way of his rewarding an earnest party
worker in the person of Mr.. Albert Hoff-
man.
Nathan 7. Stratton, trustee of the
State Reform School, died at MulIica Hill,
on the 9th inst, aged 70 years. He was
well-known, and at one time was one of the
leaders of the Democracy of the First
District, representing the citizens in the
Thirty-second Congress IN 1851, and was
reelected in 1854.
Armstrong mad 1t all nicely planned to
be District Court Judge in Camden, but
Governor Green rather spoiled the job by
to promote the present District
Court Judge to the Common Pleas bench,
and renominating Judge Wescott Now the
Senate tries to help along the ex-Speaker's
ambitious scheme by refusal to confirm
Westcott, on the ground that he is too hot
partisan.
-Assemblyman Wolvertoa and Corbin
defeated, by their speeches, the poll tx
repeater. Wolyerton went 50 far as to
declare that if the Legislature continued
to exempt the property of individuals all
over the State, feeling would be created
in favor of the railroads and other corpora
tons, and he, for one, unless the practice
was stopped, gave notice that he may be
considered an out and out railroad and
corporation man.
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